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<b>(CNN) —</b> If you watch "The Bachelor," you know Rebekah Martinez. She's the free spirit with the pixie cut who established great chemistry with the former race car driver looking for true love.<p>Martinez did something else notable.<p>She has so far managed to appear on five of this season's episodes of …

At this point, it's obvious that Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections. But on the brink of another season of primaries and elections, the question becomes: What happens now? Is Russia going to get involved in the 2018 elections? And what, if anything, can …

Jason Reeves knows what a good cut of steak looks like before it hits your dinner plate. Standing in the middle of a 50-foot-wide cooler, he points out different parts of a freshly slaughtered cow hanging from the hooks while a fan roars in the background.<p>"That's the kidney heart. Fat on the …

Iceland's new prime minister is a feminist and environmentalist who is among the youngest leaders in the world. She has a degree in literature with a special interest in Icelandic crime novels. She appeared in a music video 20 years ago with an Icelandic band, Bang Gang. And she's considered …

After more than four years in immigration detention in the middle of the South Pacific, the Iranian cartoonist known as "Eaten Fish" has a new view: the fjords of Norway.<p>Eaten Fish — the pen name of cartoonist Ali Dorani — arrived in Stavanger, Norway, on Dec. 17 after the city agreed to host him …

I've never had a Christmas tree.<p>Never bought one. Never decorated one.<p>I grew up in a Muslim family in Iran and moved to the US about a decade ago. Every Christmas, I watch as my non-Christian friends get in their cars, drive to a Christmas tree lot and pick out their favorite tree. And I wonder why.<p>…

Twenty-eight years isn't very long for a democracy to take root. And you could say, Poland is having growing pains.<p>The country shed communism in favor of democracy in 1989, but today, critics say that democracy is in trouble. The European Union is among the critics. Poland is a member of the EU, …

If you happen to be traveling out of the country through certain US airports during this holiday season, you may have to go through yet another security check at the airport: a facial scan.<p>In fact, you may already have already been scanned and didn't even know it. That's what happened to Tanvi …

I first saw the ship a year ago, in an abandoned prison cell.<p>“Giant” is an intricately detailed model galleon, something that, at a casual glance, you might expect to see in a museum. It's also a dramatic contrast to its surroundings — a decrepit, high-security isolation cell in Guantánamo’s Camp …

Fire crews have made progress on the blazes in the Ventura, Santa Clarita, and Sylmar areas<p><i>Editor's note:</i> <i>This story was originally published December 6. It has been updated throughout to reflect the latest information.</i><p>While two of the three fires that ravaged Southern California last week have been …

When Rotchana Sussman arrived in Los Angeles in 1994, she thought she was about to start a new, well-paying job as a garment worker.<p>She had worked in a factory in her native country, Thailand. She’d heard that work in Los Angeles paid three times as much. But when Sussman, then 24, arrived at Los …

Many young girls take fashion cues from their Barbie dolls, and I suppose I was no different. OK, I was pretty different. I have spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and when I was about 10, someone gave me a Share-a-Smile Becky.<p>Though I am mobile without the aid of a wheelchair (unlike Becky), my …

It took him 32 years, but scientist Sam Hudson and a team of other researchers have found a way to produce silk without silkworms.<p>Unlike fabrics such as polyester or nylon, there’s no petroleum-based plastic. Unlike rayon, there’s no toxic chemicals or deforestation involved.<p>It’s a yeast that when …

What if she hadn’t lost her shoe that day? Arati Baladas wonders about this sometimes.<p>Baladas is 20, and she sometimes replays in her mind that moment on April 24, 2013, when she scrambled to find her missing sandal, as the walls and the ceiling around her crumbled.<p>She was working at her sewing …

In stark contrast with last year’s pick, a self-confessed sexual harasser, Time Magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year is the “silence breakers,” a powerful title for the women who fueled the #MeToo movement. And the cover photo makes a bold statement on behalf of those who cannot speak out.<p>Honoring …

We take toilets for granted in the United States. We usually have access to safe facilities when we need it.<p>So, imagine being afraid every time you need to use the toilet. Afraid of being attacked or exposed to a disease.<p>For more than 1 billion women and girls around the world, those fears are …

US President Donald Trump was "wrong" to retweet three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy head of British far-right group Britain First, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Wednesday.<p>"Britain First seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which peddle lies …

He is a tourist attraction worth travelling a long way to see — Jonathan the giant tortoise is perhaps the world's oldest land animal, living in pampered luxury on the remote British island of St. Helena.<p>Aged at least 185 — though no one knows for certain — Jonathan should prepare himself for an …

Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, Australian scientists said Sunday, in a project they hope could restore damaged ecosystems around the world.<p>In a trial at the reef's Heron Island off Australia's east coast, the researchers collected …

A rumbling volcano on Bali could erupt at any moment, authorities warned Monday as they raised alert levels to maximum, accelerated a mass evacuation and closed the main airport, leaving thousands of tourists stranded on the Indonesian resort island.<p>Massive columns of thick grey smoke that have …

Pope Francis on Monday arrived in Yangon, Myanmar — the first stop of his six-day trip to Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh.<p>The pontiff’s visit comes as Myanmar is being accused of violently pushing out hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and US Secretary of …